The Emmys have been a masturbatory event for over a decade. Americans don't care and they have not for a long time. They like watching shows that they enjoy. Ratings used to help media companies keep score. In my past life working at America's #1 Network, we focused on viewership as our measurement of success, not awards (which was helpful because our shows tended not to win them ;). We were acutely aware that American viewers don't have the time or interest in what a particular body of critics, celebrities, or trade press say about anything. Streaming clouded the measurement picture, allowing walled garden platforms to grade their own work and perpetuate the false promise of endless growth and unlimited resources. Award shows as we know them are a huge waste of time and money. Do they do damage beyond the fiduciary waste? If nothing else they are a lame diversion for all involved ... time and energy that could have been spent doing something that mattered.
I don't think award shows are necessarily terrible, they are what they are, and what they've always been. I see no problem with an industry awarding what they feel is good work. Yeah, I would like to see Yellowstone get more love from the Emmys but the Academy has a a history of not honoring great shows and talent (see Better Call Sauls zero Emmy wins). IMO, the issue is that the mystique of Hollywood has worn off. People in this country are angry . Angry for many reasons (and no, it's not just Hollywood liberals no matter how much the right wants to make it that). People are struggling for a lot of reasons and Hollywood isn't the escape it used to be and award shows haven't been that since the 80s.
I didn't know the Emmys were on last night. Not until Monday Night Football ended with its usual, "down to the final play" drama. I quickly looked up the winners up to that point, and saw the predictable trends, and switched over to an NFL post-game show about two teams I don't care about.
What idiot scheduled Emmys against the 2022 kick-off of Monday Night Football. The Ankler just did a series about who's watching TV, and what kind of shows people watch. The NFL is TV's 500-pound gorilla. And who thought it was a good idea to have people at tables with drinks? I'm a regular blue-collar guy, and I've been forced to make so many cutbacks due to inflation. I could sit through a bunch of celebrities and Hollywood folks sitting in a nice theater, but not a Golden Globes-style event. It was a terrarium of excess.
The Emmys have been a masturbatory event for over a decade. Americans don't care and they have not for a long time. They like watching shows that they enjoy. Ratings used to help media companies keep score. In my past life working at America's #1 Network, we focused on viewership as our measurement of success, not awards (which was helpful because our shows tended not to win them ;). We were acutely aware that American viewers don't have the time or interest in what a particular body of critics, celebrities, or trade press say about anything. Streaming clouded the measurement picture, allowing walled garden platforms to grade their own work and perpetuate the false promise of endless growth and unlimited resources. Award shows as we know them are a huge waste of time and money. Do they do damage beyond the fiduciary waste? If nothing else they are a lame diversion for all involved ... time and energy that could have been spent doing something that mattered.
How many people actually watch Lizzo’s series?
I don't think award shows are necessarily terrible, they are what they are, and what they've always been. I see no problem with an industry awarding what they feel is good work. Yeah, I would like to see Yellowstone get more love from the Emmys but the Academy has a a history of not honoring great shows and talent (see Better Call Sauls zero Emmy wins). IMO, the issue is that the mystique of Hollywood has worn off. People in this country are angry . Angry for many reasons (and no, it's not just Hollywood liberals no matter how much the right wants to make it that). People are struggling for a lot of reasons and Hollywood isn't the escape it used to be and award shows haven't been that since the 80s.
I didn't know the Emmys were on last night. Not until Monday Night Football ended with its usual, "down to the final play" drama. I quickly looked up the winners up to that point, and saw the predictable trends, and switched over to an NFL post-game show about two teams I don't care about.
What idiot scheduled Emmys against the 2022 kick-off of Monday Night Football. The Ankler just did a series about who's watching TV, and what kind of shows people watch. The NFL is TV's 500-pound gorilla. And who thought it was a good idea to have people at tables with drinks? I'm a regular blue-collar guy, and I've been forced to make so many cutbacks due to inflation. I could sit through a bunch of celebrities and Hollywood folks sitting in a nice theater, but not a Golden Globes-style event. It was a terrarium of excess.